Java Engineering Lead/Manager

Java Engineering Lead/Manager - Burgess Hill - hybrid - 6months +

Skills/experience

  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required; advanced degree preferred
  • 5+ years of active engineering - Experienced with Kotlin/Java
  • 2+ years leadership experience in a complex technical environment and/or comparable experience
  • Successful design, creation and deployment of one or more enterprise-grade technology assets, including integration of cross-platform solutions in an Agile product environment
  • Experience with agile software development methodologies and practices such as Scrum/Kanban, iterations, user stories
  • Experienced ability to set priorities and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  • Hands on experience with automation testing and documentation (ie automated, functional, and performance)
  • Deep knowledge and experience in programming, testing, and application design for microservices using Java 17 and above or Kotlin, Spring and build automation with Gradle.
  • Observability - Logging, Monitoring & Alerting Strategy & Implementation using industry standard frameworks like Sentry
  • Deep Knowledge of cloud and CI/CD technologies, and how to get code into production quickly and reliably with Github actions, CircleCI.

Key Responsibilities

Software Engineering

  • Hands-on engineer with expertise in developing complex, large scale enterprise applications
  • Responsible for technical aspects of software engineering for assigned applications including design, developing prototypes, and coding assignments
  • Partners with customers and other internal teams and technical product managers to deliver improvements to the platform
  • Establish and accepts responsibility for engineering practices across teams for example the code review, build and release process and the effectiveness of the retrospective
  • Empower teams to automate demand driven scalable application deployments in test or production environments
  • Apply specialized knowledge of industry standards or practices to assigned initiatives to identify complex and or broad problems and issues and formulate recommendations
  • Collaborates with leadership across teams to define solutions, technical implementation to drive software maturity and practices

Leadership

  • People Leader to software engineering team, including colleagues and contractors, dotted line leadership to sr. engineering colleagues in team(s)
  • Promote, empower, and practice servant-leadership
  • Nurture an environment of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
  • Take accountability for the technical maturity of the team
  • Mentor and guide team members to success; identify strengths and areas for growth in direct reports and guides them to grow in their careers while being more productive on the team
  • Hire top talent for the team

Job Details

Company
Initialize IT
Location
Burgess Hill, Sussex, United Kingdom RH150
Employment Type
Contract
Salary
GBP Annual
Posted